London Design Festival 2018 Trends

September is certainly a month that no one really looks forward to. Holidays end, days get shorter and darker, and life gets back into the routine after summer… Except for designers! We love September - the month when we get to peruse the best of design, creativity, and new ideas at the London Design Festival!

For us, LDF started with a trade-only panel hosted by one of our favourite high street suppliers: West Elm. The evening gave us a taste of what to expect at Decorex & 100% Design…The event featured:

Goodbye Feature Walls - paint (or wallpaper!) everythinG including the ceiling the same. This creates depth and the most

beautiful canvas to feature some mega lighting and furniture.

More. Is . More. Clashes of pattern and colour to create a wild and UNIQUE environment. The minimalist age is making way for some serious fun.

Hotel Haymarket, Stockholm

Ceilings are the 5th wall - go bold or go home.

White City House, London

Everyone is bored of grey - like music to our ears! Grey has been the go to for so long and it’s making way for more bold and statement shades.

Picture from Decorex 2018

Enter dark and bold hues - a step away from the neutral

Picture by Abigail Ahern

GLOSS! Yes, lacquer everything people! The shining is upon us.

Picture by Simon Upton, Poppy Delevigne’s House

Decorex & 100% Design where next on our agenda. 100% Design offered us a broader view of design novelties, including architecture and urban development. As usual, the stands at Decorex were amazing, inspiring and totally exciting. Here is a selection of our favourite designs.

Decorex 2018

Didesigns, Decorex 2018

Decorex, 2018

Gillmore, Decorex 2018

Decorex 2018

'Instead of rose and yellow gold, more industrial shades of metal are expected to become the prominent choice. From brass to nickel - less high shine materials will add a more organic element to your space' Alice Howarth, The Evening Standard

Ornamental Plants

Decorex 2018

‘All Eyes On This: It may sound odd but it's true - faces and facial features are becoming favoured interior accessories, adorning the likes of wall hangings and rugs’ Katie Berrington, Vogue

Liang & Eimil, Decorex 2018

'Velvet is billed to be the fabric of choice for statement soft furnishing (yes, this may really be the year to finally invest in that forest green Chesterfield)’ Alice Howarth, The Evening Standard